Aragalaya plus Hartalaya and the SJBs economic choices

To each their own take on the Aragalaya 2022. As someone who had travelled through Europe in May ‘68 with his parents (while a guest of several governments, my foreign affairs commentator father was also reporting on the student rebellions for the Ceylon Observer), I instantly applauded the new Sri Lankan post-war consciousness I recognised in the Aragalaya: the multi-class, multi-religious, non-patriarchal, anti-racist progressivism of our youth who were the driving force of a historic cross-generational civic democratic revolution. It was the closest we’ve got to May ‘68. However, I noticed and lamented the lack of the intellectual, ideological and…